Education

The Hanoi education department initiated programme on teaching English to first graders started in 2008. To date, 400 schools have joined the programme.

Many modern parents coddle their children, creating disruption in the classroom and problems for other children.

Many graduates with excellent degrees continue to fail to find jobs due to a lack of vocational skills.

Hanoi has proposed new regulations, banning teachers from offering extra classes to primary students.

Imitation, not creativeness, is the thing Vietnamese teachers require on their students when they teach how to write compositions.

Increasing numbers of Vietnamese are taking MA studies to progress in their careers. However, the quality of the courses is in doubt.

The increasingly high demand for foreign English teachers has turned Vietnam into a promising land for many English native speakers.

While Vietnamese students feel excited with the new teaching method applied by foreign teachers, their parents are worried about possible negative effects.

Most Vietnamese students believe that teachers need to be grateful to them, because they bring money to teachers which can feed teachers’ families.

Several Vietnamese teachers have found fame on social networks thanks to their great innovations and contributions at work.

Firms are targeting pre-school kids as part of their marketing campaigns by sponsoring traditional commendation certificates for good behaviour.

Vietnam’s university education still cannot integrate fully into the world because Vietnamese still do not have the foreign language skills and a good enough reasonable management mechanism.

After retirement, a 80 year-old teacher has opened her own doors to teach disabled and disadvantaged children in Hanoi.

The HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said it would revoke the licenses granted to several other Singapore-owned schools in the city.

Science subjects have been taught in English at many general schools in big cities, where students can start learning English very soon and have good basic English skills.

Asian universities and secondary schools must better align themselves with labour market so they can ensure graduates have the skills and knowledge, says the ADB's report.

The Ministry of Education and Training will scrutinise the quality of foreign language teachers at tertiary level.

President Truong Tan Sang has decided to honour Meritorious and People’s Teachers titles to 610 outstanding teachers.

Vietnam is well on its way to integrate with the world and for that reason emphasis on English language skills has become very essential.